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Synopsis

When Lincoln is tired of Lori bossing everyone around when their parents are out, he decides that he and the others should overthrow her, and the others put him in charge.

Plot

It's Friday night, and Mr. and Mrs. Loud are going out on a date. Unfortunately for the Loud kids, Lori is in charge, and apparently takes glee in bossing them around. She won't let Luna rock out, Lana make mud pies, Leni talk on the phone, or Lincoln play his new video game. Dressing up as a military drill sergeant, she instructs them that they will have a very boring evening, to which they obey.

Lincoln invites his other sisters to sneak into his room, and suggests a plan to overthrow "The Queen of No". After distracting Lori, the others ambush her, and tie her to a chair. The other sisters vote for Lincoln to be their new babysitter, and despite her warning that Lincoln won't make a good leader, and that the house will fall apart without her, they confine Lori to her room, with Lola on guard duty.

However, Lori's warning proves to be true, as in under five minutes, the kids mess up the house with their roughhousing and destructive antics. Lincoln attempts to get them to stop, but they refuse to so, derisively calling him Lori. Realizing that Lori is the only one who can stop the chaos, he tries to get Lola to release her, but she instead knocks him out with a golf club, and ties him to a chair.

Lincoln and Lori realized they're in huge trouble.

Upon using Geo to free himself, Lincoln makes his way into Lori's room through her window and begs her to help him. She refuses at first, but expects the help. The two make their way downstairs, and Lori uses glitter to distract Lola and the warning that Mom and Dad will be home in ten minutes to get the other sisters to cease their madness and clean up the house, and they have to do it fast since she gets a call saying that they will be home really soon.
Under Lori's authority and through Luna's cleaning montage, the kids manage to clean the giant mess just as their parents get home. Lori joins Lincoln in playing his new game, both having learned that you can't say "no" all the time, and all is well until Dad notices his broken golf club which Lola used to knock out Lincoln earlier, as Lori and Lincoln stare at each other in shock, knowing that they're in huge trouble.

Trivia

Timeline

The episode takes place on Friday the 13th, a day often considered to bring superstitious misfortune. Coincidentally, this episode premiered in the US on a week that had a Friday the 13th.

The calendar only has 28 days, which indicates that this episode takes place in February.

This is the only time Haley Mancini worked in an episode as a writer, until she is currently worked on Cartoon Network for The Powerpuff Girls, which is the 2016 series of the 1998 series Chris Savino had previously worked on.

This is the first title card that Lincoln and Lori share together.

This is the first episode of Season 1 to have a character's name in the title.

In addition, this is the first episode where one of Lincoln's sister's names is in the title.

Lori and Lola were the only sisters who did not cause any disasters. This is due to the former originally being put in charge before Lincoln overthrows her, and takes her job, and the latter standing guard in front of Lori and Leni's room.

Street Fighter - The title screen for Lincoln's game is in a similar font to the popular Capcom fighting series.

Futurama - The premise has some slight similarities to the episode Brannigan, Begin Again, in which Fry and Bender are tired of Leela being such a stern captain, then plot a mutiny, and then need to make Leela captain again, when they are in a jam, and need her to get them out of it.

NES and Nintendo 64 - The game console Lincoln has seems to have some similarities with the Nintendo Entertainment System, in terms of its design, but the game cartridges for it, look more like Nintendo 64 games.

When Lori pulls out the schedule of the evening, the title up top says "Lori's Rules" instead of "Lori's Schedule".

Lori's Schedule is labeled wrong.

Luan has camouflage on her, but when Leni comes in Lincoln's room for the meeting, the camouflage disappears.

Lincoln got hit by a slice of pizza and waffles in Lucy and Lana's food fight, but in the next scene, Lincoln doesn't have food on him.

Right after Lincoln takes away the whistle from Lori and broke the string, the string of the whistle is somehow fixed.

Lincoln's hands are shown in this episode, but in another one of those behind the scenes gifs, his hands aren't shown.

When Lincoln said "No guitar playing!" to Luna, her eyelashes are missing.

When Lisa's creature grabs Lily with its tentacle in the scene where the sisters clean up, Lily is shown to be giggling but no giggling sound is heard.

In the Latin American version, all of the siblings (including Lana) says "Ma'am, yes ma'am!". So, it wouldn't make sense for Lori to glare at Lana for addressing her properly like how she did in the English version when she called her "sir".

It's unknown how Lori knew about Dad's golf club getting damaged, as she was in her room, and didn't see Lola hit Lincoln with it.